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Michael Huang Serves as Secretariat General at the 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing, Beijing, China

Michael Huang, Health Sciences Librarian, served as Secretariat General and Member of the Organizing Committee at the 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing, October 31 to November 2, 2012, Beijing, China. He provided on-site translation from English to Mandarin and vice versa for Dr. Camila Alire, Dean

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Janet Clarke November 5, 2012

Michael Huang Visits Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

Michael Huang, Health Sciences Librarian, and Dr. Camila Alire, Dean Emerita, University of New Mexico and Colorado State University, ALA President (2009-2010) visited Shanghai Normal University on November 6, 2012. Michael provided on-site translation from English to Mandarin and vice versa for Dr. Alire during her speech at Shanghai Normal

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Janet Clarke November 5, 2012

Hi-Tech Urban Aquaponics

The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there’s not much arable land and the soil is contaminated. So Maundu doesn’t use soil. Instead he’s growing plants using fish and circulating water. Farming fish and

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Janet Clarke October 24, 2012

Ronald Takaki recognized for contribution to multicultural society

Ronald Takaki, author of many books on Asian American and American ethnic history, including Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans,was a recipient of the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Author Award.  The JCLC, which was held recently in Kansas City, MO, is a joint conference

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Janet Clarke October 12, 2012

Mo Yan, Chinese Author, Wins Nobel Prize

The Swedish Academy announced on Oct. 11 that it had awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Mo Yan, a Chinese author.  Read more …. Melville Library holds many books by Mo Yan.   Please check on the library catalog  SBU Find or click directly on here  for titles.

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Janet Clarke October 11, 2012

DATABASE TRIAL: Churchill Archive

The Churchill Archive includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. From Bloomsbury Publishing in collaboration with the Churchill Archives Centre, the collection includes: Documents including private

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Janet Clarke October 11, 2012

2012 Nobel Prize in Physcis

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; and David J. Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring

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Janet Clarke October 9, 2012

Free Trial to the Thieme eBook Library until December 31, 2012

The Thieme E-Book Library provides students, researchers, and clinicians with access to an online collection of lavishly illustrated, full-color textbooks from Thieme’s Flexibook and Color Atlas series. This online textbook collection of sixty-seven titles is helpful to students mastering critical subjects and a resource for clinicians and scientists in the health sciences and related fields. The

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Janet Clarke October 9, 2012

DATABASE TRIAL: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 focuses on the two centuries of Britain’s colonial, missionary, commercial and literary relations with Africa and the Americas. The database contains 14 collections of rare primary source documents, with the total number of images at almost 300,000. British Records on the Atlantic World,

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Janet Clarke October 5, 2012